Answers to Listening: Vocabulary building for Toddlers

Answers

(Reading to a child and talking about the book, relating it to their lives will build vocabulary and your relationship with them.)

· Toddlers understand three times as many words as they use.

· Between the ages of 2 and 3 toddlers are learning up to ten new words a day.

· Introducing new words through conversation and books feeds their curiosity.

· Ask your child lots of questions about the topics that interest them

· Give them time to think of an answer.

· When they respond repeat their answers back to them and add a few more words to the conversation, so the child will learn new words related to the conversation

· Vocabulary building can be done easily by reading story books and discussing the illustrations.

· Talk about the picture in the book and relate them to your child's own life.

· If there is a picture of a grandmother talk about the child's grandmother etc.

· Connect the pictures to real life experience the child gets more meaning out of it.

· Children will remember the words they find interesting the best.

· Forget about flashcards just talk about life together.

· Having conversations with your toddler about what they find funny, interesting and even confusing not only helps expand their vocabularies but it helps develop your relationship too.